Two North Texas parents were arrested over the weekend after a passer-by found two young children alone in a hot car in a Burleson parking lot.

Hamud Mohamed

(Mansfield Police Department)

Hamud Mohamed, 22, and Mersadez Alexus Young, 20, are charged with abandoning or endangering a child.

Burleson police say the pair left the two children, ages 1 and 3, in a car at the Burleson Commons shopping center on Southwest Wilshire Boulevard about 7 p.m. Saturday. The windows on the car were open a crack, police said.

Mersadez Alexus Young

(Mansfield Police Department)

A 14-year-old relative also was in the car with them but soon left to get a drink, police said.

A short time later, a passer-by noticed the unattended children and called 911 — probably saving their lives, police said in a Facebook post.

The children were sweating profusely and there was loose marijuana in the vehicle, police said. The children were taken to a hospital for evaluation, then released into the custody of relatives.